SHANGHAI PANCAKE

Shanghai Pancake

was once very popular. 

It was usually served together with a sweet cold dessert 

at the end of a heavy 8 course dinner in a Chinese restaurant.

This recipe is adapted from dingoozatfood.blogspot.com 

(A) sift together 

90g All Purpose Flour

30g Rice Flour

1/2 tsp Baking Powder

2 tsp Sugar 

1/4 tsp Salt

(B) Combine

1 large Egg

230g Water

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250g red bean paste or lotus bean paste.

Cooking Oil

Method

1. Add B to A, mix well and strain through a sieve
2. Lightly oil a non stick frying pan
3. Heat up the pan. 
4. Pour 1 ladle batter into the pan, swirl to form a thin pancake 
5. Once set, remove from pan and spread filling onto the pancake (do not press in the filling)
6. Fold into rectangle by folding in the 4 sides, Brush some batter on the sides to secure the edges
7. Heat some oil in the pan, pan fry the pancake until golden brown on both sides. Dish out and drain the excess oil. Cut into pieces and serve 

BASQUE BURNT CHEESECAKE

Basque Burnt Cheesecake 

is easy to make,

from scratch to out of the oven within an hour!

No special skill required,

only beating, mixing & beating!

When warm, it tastes like custard

and when chilled, it tastes like normal cheesecake with burnt top!

It is simply delicious!

This recipe is adapted from here

Basque Burnt Cheesecake

6" round cake

250g cream cheese

80g sugar

3 eggs

125ml whipping cream

15g cake flour

1. Line 6" loose bottom cake tin with baking paper

2. beat cream cheese & sugar until light

3. add eggs, one by one & beat in after each one

4. add whipping cream, mix well

5. add sifted flour & beat well again

6. pour into prepared tin, & put the tin into a bigger cake tin

7. bake in preheated oven 220'C for 30min at the LOWEST rack 

8. cake will rise high

9. serve warm or chilled

MIRACULOUS SAVING GRACE OF GOD

Mom on her 90th birthday
8th July 2019

Miraculous Saving Grace of God

My mom had been a fervent ancestor and idol worshiper for all the days of her life until the last few miraculous days. All family members and friends who came to her wake service were surprised to see a Cross and Bible Verses accompanying my mom as she laid there in the living room, in the house that she spent decades worshiping idols!

On 30th July morning, a day after being admitted to the hospital for fluid retention in her body, my mom shocked us by suddenly singing ‘天堂是我家‘ in Chinese, loud and clear! She did not just sang it once but repeated the same song with enthusiasm to everyone who came to see her that day.

As she was singing this song, the Holy Spirit prompted me to take action, ‘This is the moment’! I asked my mom for permission to contact Pastor Grace, a family friend. My mom had earlier rejected her several times when she wanted to visit her, saying that she did not want to leave her faith at this old age. Praise God that she finally said ‘yes’! The sudden change of mind was a miracle!

When the Pastor came, my mom sang the same song for her too and told the Pastor that Heaven is beautiful because her late husband told her about it. Without hesitation she said the sinners' prayer and accepted Jesus Christ as her Lord and Savior. As everything happened so suddenly, some family members thought that she would probably change her mind the next day, thinking she could have agreed to it at the spur of the moment.

Glory to God! The next day she was firm about her decision when asked by the Pastor and she was baptized and took Holy Communion in the hospital. I was in awe as I witnessed her faith , trusting God in her last days and her complete surrender to God which brought her peace.

She told me Heaven is beautiful and she wanted to go there. She also wished that she could breathe her last with no struggle, best if she could go peacefully in her sleep. I explained to her that now she is a child of God, the Holy Spirit is in her. Jesus loves her and He will surely hear if she asks. We talked about Jesus’ saving grace and His abundant love for her. I explained to my mom how she could pray to Jesus to tell Him her wishes. 

My mom had gone back to the Lord on Sunday 4th August 2019 @ 7am, breathing her last breath in her sleep in a peaceful manner just as she had wished it would be. Praise God for her wish granted.

God is merciful and faithful. The song which my mother had suddenly sang that day was a song she learnt in church near her house, when she was a little girl of 6 or 8 years old. My mom was on a detour for 82 long years. But God is in control. He never give up on my mother.  He patiently waited for her to come back, with His arms opening wide, waiting to receive her, not willing anyone to perish but everyone to come to repentance. This is our God!  Hallelujah! 

This is God’s love and His miraculous saving grace. All glory be our God Almighty, amen.